I'm living in a european country yes but I don't see how the usa is not socialist or collectivist. 

Maybe they don't have hate speech laws in the US now, but censoring is in full effect and there are more ways than one to shut a person up.

You asked me how many landed in prison in one of the other replies (or something along those lines) the problem there is, you don't see that very often in the news and when you see it it's from the alt media, who reports that many people landed in prison because they could not pay their forced healthcare insurance, another was about traffic tickets and people who landed in prison for that  25000 I think I  remember. and the traffic ticket can be about anything.
But there are many things I don't know about.
But what to think about people who have to tear don't a newly build porch because it did not look right according to some beauty commissions taste. How about making taxes higher  we don't see how many people land on the street because of that. There are here so many rules ( the windshield replacement is one real live example)
I can still pay it but how many people can't and are forced in high costs which eventually lands them in poverty. The fees for licenses are not low either.
Clean air is nice but now they want to forbid diesel cars in the cities and other places also because of some european union rule thing. Millions of people will be victim of this. It's the cheapest fuel, their cars will be lot's less worth, they can't sell them (who is gonna buy) they need to buy another car use very expensive fuel. Many people will suffer from this and land in poverty because of this.
There are coming more and more bureaucrats and more and more bureaucracy, more rules, more laws, more licenses, more taxes, which are going up in price and get stricter  and force you to do things that are completely dehumanizing, idiotic, and right out evil.

But again it's hard to see for most where it's heading a lot of my acquaintances don't care about free speech or freedom altogether.........yet..........with some I can see that they are beginning to see that their prison is getting smaller and that the noose around their neck is pulled tighter .....ah well we'll see.
Now, I really  need to stop typing and go do some hammering and screwing I have an bathroom that needs to be  finnished lol :)

Hey, Thanks for the conversation. Peace :)